100,000,000 Years

What traces will modern human civilisation leave to be found in millions of year’s time? We relentlessly consume and discard, building and remodelling our infrastructure whilst technology updates, morphs and outdates at an ever increasing rate. As the waste pile grows, it has been proposed that we are at the dawn of the Anthopocene, a new epoch that is shaped by the unrelenting march of human technology and convenience. If beings from a future civilisation were to explore earths geological record they would find a layer more diverse and unusual than any other in the strata. This project visually explores the notion of the anthropocene and the traces this geological layer leave within the fossil record in millennia to come. The images are comprised of photograms a cameraless photography technique that involves placing the subject directly onto the photo sensitive paper and exposing it to light. This technique captures the shadows of the object leaving an imprint stripped of all familiar contexts like the traces that we will inevitably leave behind in the fossil record. The reframing of these objects as something unfamiliar that deserves the viewers time and attention reflects the c